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- From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Town Meeting
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 05:39:50 GMT
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- -From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- -Subject: Re: SUMMARY of 1st NASA TOWN MEETING -- Raleigh NC (long)
- -Date: 14 Nov 92 23:17:44 GMT
-
- -In article <1992Nov13.160320.16902@samba.oit.unc.edu> cecil@physics.unc.edu writes:
- -> What about SSTO? -- too many launch vehicle programs in the works. Some
- -> must be cancelled.
-
- -Did Goldin say this? If so, I'm disapointed.
-
- Question: does this reflect a *change* in NASA policy toward DCX?
-
- -Surely it's worth the cost of a couple of Shuttle flights to see if
- -the concept works?
-
- Well, *I* think so, but then I'm not part of the budget decision process.
-
- As far as manned moon/Mars expeditions are concerned, Goldin doesn't seem
- to have given up on those permanently - he seems to feel that if the
- prerequisites can be taken care of (demonstrating realistic cost estimates,
- the small quick unmanned probes, reduction of launch costs), then the
- government may again be willing to look in that direction. (My own opinion
- is that at least small amounts of funding should be maintained so that
- planning and cooking of new ideas can be continued, both for manned
- interplanetary activity and for all of the launcher programs. This could
- be justified as technology development. One thing that could be very useful
- is to kill the name "SEI" entirely - once it was viewed as a magic word that
- could be used to secure huge amounts of funding, but now attaching the
- name SEI to a project proposal is like trying to sell "Rat Poison" brand
- baby formula.)
-
- By the way, this past week George Stephanopoulos told the press that
- his team is still accepting suggestions and requests, in the form of
- 30000 letters a day. :-)
-
- John Roberts
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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